Chapter 12: Evolution: Political Government

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Field	Value
Source	America and the New Epoch
Year	1916
Section ID	`america-and-new-epoch-chapter-13`
Location	lines 5328-5797
Status	candidate
Word Count	2613
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XII evolution: political government OUR nation has been fairly prosperous and successful thus far, in spite of our previous and present method of dealing with social, in- dustrial, and political problems, which is no method at all, but mere muddling. However, we had no serious foreign competition to meet; we had at our disposition the vast and un- touched resources of a virgin continent, the intellectual stores of the Old World, and the continuous supply of skilled and unskilled labor, in the despised immigrant, who, after all, has made America what it is to-day. The most desirable immigration — from England, Ger- many, Ireland, Scandinavia — practic<ally ended years ago, and now, as the result of the war, all immigration threatens to stop, except perhaps that from the least desirable nationalities. In- tellectually, ovir nation

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... t that the prospec- tive user gets httle rehable information, one organization will supply complete and correct information, as there is no further reason to misrepresent, no reason to dwell extensively on the favorable features, and omit altogether, or skip lightly over the unfavorable features, but every interest is toward correct representation of all features. Competition between industries would cease; thus, in transportation, the country's water- ways would be used to the fullest ex ...

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... ccomplished by American national engineering societies, and from here has spread to other countries and is now concentrally beginning to reach our Gov- ernment. The movement for industrial safety originated and developed in this manner. In the field of morality and temperance, national societies have been active, also, though perhaps not always wisely. However, the organization of even the largest national societies necessarily is so limited that with the exceptions of certain definite f ...

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Transients / damping

... Federal Government, some of the supervisory work by State commis- sions, etc., and even in these there is the con- tinuous danger of political interference, of the work of many years being undone, or per- verted to vicious purposes by some temporary political influence. It is so much easier to de- stroy than to construct; it takes so long a time to accomplish constructive work, and so short a time to destroy the work of many years. Thus there can be no efficiency without con- tinu ...

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